FREEDOM
Developing Sovereign Free People
To be sovereign and free means to be open to the needs of
others. It involves embracing an openness
to new ideas and diverse thinking. It
means having an eye to see ways to improve life and to incorporate this
thinking into living unpredictably, to have mobility in one’s life and have an
insightful expectation for change. This is an advocation expressed by
Timothy Snyder author of the book, On Freedom.
It is an extraordinary advocation for what makes us
free. The realization of our needs is a
consequence of having critical thinking skills and abilities developed from the
experience of excellence in education.
An education that develops investigative and analytical abilities,
develops and open-mindedness for new ideas and a shared commitment for the
protection and preservation of local ecosystems world-wide.
People in free societies have expectations for their own
political, social, economic and spiritual discourse. An outcome of this
discourse is the safeguarding of lives, preservation of resources and the delivery
of a secure and prosperous future.
Education provides individuals the power to seize their
chance for a better life for themselves and for those within their
community. Education develops a
resistance to acceptance of bleakness.
The societal goal is to prevent the dissolution of values intended to
prevent blaming victims and refuges for their own suffering. Without sovereign thoughts of discourse by
the populous, then solutions become nullified, and continual crisis becomes
normalized. It breeds contempt for
others and fuels an unholy acceptance of climate catastrophe outcomes.
Climate catastrophe is not an inevitability. It can be adverted by conscious action taken
by sovereign and unpredictable people.
Educated people, with developed critical thinking skills, will enable
individuals to acknowledge past catastrophes and create solutions more numerous
than can be imagined. Our values can lead us into a prosperous future by first
reflecting upon the past, then dealing with challenges of current realities and
finally seizing the chance to develop a more fulfilling good life for everyone.
As this new school year begins, we face new challenges
brought upon us by both internal and external forces. As a society our ability to surmount these
challenges and forge a more prosperous equitable future is dependent upon how we
present education to our youth in the classroom. The avenues available to educators to
deliver learning opportunities must include a pathway to sovereignty. This is the course of action that can deliver
a lasting progressive impact on how we live, how we deal with each other
and how we prepare ourselves for the future.
The vocation of teaching is the crucible from which a
sovereign society can rise from and thereby seize the chance to make a better
life for everyone.
